iSeries Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

IBM iSeries
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term iSeries in contract job vacancies in South Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited iSeries over the 6 months leading up to 7 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 65 63
Rank change year-on-year -45 -2 -21
Contract jobs citing iSeries 1 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.084% 0.19% 0.20%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.20% 0.53% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £425 £600
Median % change year-on-year +32.94% -29.17% -1.72%
Yorkshire median daily rate £565 £425 £600
% change year-on-year +32.94% -29.17% -1.72%

All Generic Skills
South Yorkshire

iSeries falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 506 187 135
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 42.45% 35.76% 27.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 314 110 74
10th Percentile £358 £357 £255
25th Percentile £415 £388 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £464 £514
Median % change year-on-year +7.82% -9.78% -10.61%
75th Percentile £586 £575 £588
90th Percentile £688 £626 £625
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 7
10th Percentile £14.68 - £10.90
25th Percentile £15.67 - £11.80
Median hourly rate £19.34 £15.00 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.93% +7.14% +31.70%
75th Percentile £21.40 - £41.88
90th Percentile £22.20 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £26.72 £19.76 £14.63
% change year-on-year +35.26% +35.08% +37.58%

iSeries
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing iSeries relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

iSeries job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

iSeries
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing iSeries.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing iSeries

iSeries
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing iSeries within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 7 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sheffield -42 1 £565 +32.94% 1
iSeries
Yorkshire

iSeries
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Kerberos
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) FIDO
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
1 1 (100.00%) SAML
1 1 (100.00%) WebAuthn
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) GIAC
1 1 (100.00%) SSCP
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Okta